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Innate Immune Markers in Mothers and Fathers of Children Newly Diagnosed with Cancer

Author(s) -

Meredith Jayne Lutz Stehl,

Anne E. Kazak,

WeiTing Hwang,

Ahna L. H. Pai,

Anne F. Reilly,

Steven D. Douglas

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

neuroimmunomodulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.635

H-Index - 65

eISSN - 1423-0216

pISSN - 1021-7401

DOI - 10.1159/000148192

Subject(s) - immune system , peripheral blood mononuclear cell , immunology , natural killer cell , medicine , cancer , anxiety , nkg2d , cytotoxic t cell , biology , psychiatry , in vitro , biochemistry

The diagnosis of a life-threatening illness in a child is one of the most stressful events imaginable for parents and is associated with increased anxiety and distress. Despite associations between stress and immune function in animal and human models, the immune function in caregivers of children at the time of a child-related potentially traumatic event, like cancer, is not known.

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